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Webster 1913 Edition


Hyaline

Hy′a-line

,
Adj.
[L.
hyalinus
, Gr. [GREEK], fr.
ὕαλοσ
glass: cf. F.
hyalin
.]
Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.
Hyaline spaces.”
Carpenter.

Hy′a-line

,
Noun.
1.
A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
“The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.”
Milton.
Our blood runs amazed ’neath the calm
hyaline
.
Mrs. Browning.
2.
(Biol.)
The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleus originates.
3.
(Physiol. Chem.)
The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.
Gamgee.

Webster 1828 Edition


Hyaline

HY'ALINE

,
Adj.
[Gr. glass.] Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass.

Definition 2024


hyaline

hyaline

English

Alternative forms

Adjective

hyaline (comparative more hyaline, superlative most hyaline)

  1. Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
    • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
      They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

hyaline (countable and uncountable, plural hyalines)

  1. Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
    • Milton
      The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.
    • Elizabeth Browning
      Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.
  2. (zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
  3. (biochemistry) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Arthur Gamgee to this entry?)

Latin

Adjective

hyaline

  1. vocative masculine singular of hyalinus